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1) Children’s rights e-learning
Scottish Government hosted by NHS Education for Scotland on TURAS
This e-learning is intended to provide a baseline knowledge of what children’s rights are, where they came from, and how they have been developed in laws, policies, and practice. Using interactive activities, participants can test their learning at different stages in the course. It is free to register and the course can be found by putting children’s rights in the search bar.
2) Children's Human Rights in Scotland Timeline
JustRight Scotland
A short introductory timeline summarising the events between the creation of the UNCRC and the passing of the UNCRC Incorporation Bill. It helps explain how children's rights are already a key part of law in Scotland.
3) Links to other regulations and duties (section of guidance on taking a children’s human rights approach)
Scottish Government
This section of the Scottish Government guidance on taking a children’s human rights approach covers links to other regulations and duties, including Getting It Right For Every Child (GIRFEC), children’s services’ planning, and The Promise. These policies are already grounded within a children’s human rights approach.
The Improvement Service
This infographic shows the alignment of agendas across workstreams including Equally Safe/ Trauma Informed Practice/ UNCRC/ The Promise and Whole Family Wellbeing. It is designed to support with joining the dots across these cross-cutting agendas, through highlighting the commonalities across these agendas/ strategies’ visions, key principles, priorities and intended long-term outcomes.
Skilled
1) Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC) principles and values
Scottish Government
GIRFEC, as a strengths-based approach, seeks to realise children’s rights on a day to day basis and is therefore underpinned by key values and principles. These refreshed values and principles were developed together with stakeholders including children and young people from across Scotland.
The Promise Scotland
The foundations of the promise are built on what care experienced people said needs to change in Scotland. They’re based on the human rights which we all share.
3) Understanding child poverty as a rights issue
Improvement Service
This paper examines child poverty in the context of UNCRC. A wide range of rights can be affected by child poverty such as rights to an adequate standard of living, education, health, legal assistance, play, freedom of expression, social security, family life, alternative care, protection from all forms of physical or psychological abuse, and a wide range of rights of disabled children.
4) Children’s rights and place making in Scotland
Improvement Service
This paper takes a children’s rights approach to place and placemaking and considers how children’s rights can be realised through placed-based approaches. It pulls together a range of key policy areas which are important to placemaking and identifies how place makers can actively consider children’s rights in their work and approach to work.
The Improvement Service
This briefing shows the alignment of agendas across workstreams including Equally Safe/ Trauma Informed Practice/ UNCRC/ The Promise and Whole Family Wellbeing. It is designed to provide an overview of a small number of key national policy agendas, approaches and commitments, all designed to support a cross-policy, person-centred approach to improving outcomes for people and communities across Scotland affected by poverty, inequality, trauma and adversity.
Enhanced
1) Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC) e-learning modules
Scottish Government
E-learning on Getting it right for every child is available free on TURAS, for anyone who signs up to the learning platform.
2) Welcome to Plan 24-30, Scotland's route map to keeping the promise by 2030
The Promise Scotland
The Plan 24-30 sets out who needs to do what by when to Keep The Promise by 2030. It is organised around the five foundations of the promise: voice, family, care, people, and scaffolding. All of the conclusions of the Independent Care Review have been organised and grouped under these foundations in a way that makes sense for the work still required.
This is a Scottish Government-funded project. This webpage, and the linked resources within it have not been produced by the Scottish Government and so the Scottish Government cannot guarantee their quality or accuracy. Nothing on this webpage and in its linked resources is intended to constitute legal advice. Readers should seek their own independent legal advice with respect to any legal matter.